I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta. Before that I mainly worked in C and C++. I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years. I also mess around with microprocessors, but that's just for fun. I live near Cambridge, England and work from home in my 'silicon shed'.

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I've had my iPhone for quite a few years now. It's an iPhone 3GS and for a long time I have not had a compelling reason to change it. But these days I find myself stuck on iOS 6 when lots of Apps now require iOS 7 or later. So I'm getting left out in the cold. It's time to do something about that.

But on the old iPhone I also can't do things like set up a personal wifi hotspot. I can do connection sharing over bluetooth or by a cable, but I find that type of connection is not well supported on non-Apple devices. So I can't use the internet access from my phone on my Andriod tablet (although it works fine with the iPad).

The old iPhone does seem slower than it used to, so getting a new phone with a faster processor would be good too. And it will also be nice to get a better camera. So I've decided to try out one of these phones: Motorola G (the 4G version).

I like the idea of the SD card slot for extra storage and for the price it seems a very good spec. It's a shame there is no way to connect an HDMI cable, but I can live without that. But I was finding it hard to justify the cost of another Apple phone, when I've been quite satisfied with the Android OS recently. I used to feel that the Apple phones were better quality (both in terms of hardware and software). But things have moved on.

After a few days of use, I am very impressed with the Moto G. The only problem I have found so far is with the Android KitKat OS itself. There is a serious bug with the stock e-mail App which has now gone unfixed for nearly a year. That's pretty bad. I'm surprised to see it classified as Priority: small when the effect is that e-mails are deleted from the server when you have told it not to.

So I cannot use the standard e-mail App, and at the moment I'll use the K-9 App instead. It's a shame, because in previous releases of Android the e-mail App was working fine. Even so, I am pretty happy with my choice of phone. I've even started reading some pages on Android development - although it was mainly out of idle curiosity. But you never know...